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So is Channel awesome burning out what they have left or just moving on with only the chicago gang?
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So is Channel awesome burning out what they have left or just moving on with only the chicago gang?
They've been doing clearly new material for several weeks now, its not archive clearing.
Seems like they're just going to go on with only Doug's crew and pretend shit never went down.
Linkara will have everyone that used to be on the site keep guest starring on his show if his 500th episode was any indication.
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Looks like Lindsay's gonna be doing something with PBS in June
Good for Lindsay. She deserves the sun and the moon.
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They've been doing clearly new material for several weeks now, its not archive clearing.
Seems like they're just going to go on with only Doug's crew and pretend shit never went down.
Linkara will have everyone keep guest starring on his show if his 500th episode was any indication.
I don't remember seeing Doug on the 500th episode. Brad yes, Doug no.
I'm kinda personally giving Brad a pass since he's not directly or even indirectly implicated in any of the awful things that happened. That added to the fact that clearly there's no hard feelings between he and Linkara despite Lewis clearly being one of the folks with the grievances makes me feel fine with still watching Brad on his YT channel.
Kinda wish he'd just split at this point tho… I know Doug is his friend, but having just the Two contributors there is kinda sad.
It'd kinda be better at this point if they dissolved CA as a "Reviewer aggregate" site and just made it all about Doug and his team (Malcom, Tamara, Walter, et al) and their videos.
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I don't remember seeing Doug on the 500th episode. Brad yes, Doug no.
Everyone… but Doug... was implicit I thought.
Linkara also just had a whole mess of them for his 100,000 subscribers video.
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Also, Guru Larry is still on CA.
I would say it's time for him to quit since the joke is over and Brad clearly has no intention of leaving, but…I guess no one cares anymore.
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I mean Larry is pretty much just proving their lack of management given he pretty much called them out for as much and has made this big joke of the fact that they haven't taken him off despite openly mocking a company that would be well in their rights and common sense to just sever ties with.
I know I should never expect anything from Youtube comments, but it's so fucked looking at the people defending Doug on his videos. I know every reason why not to expect anything sensible to come from that, but seeing the ways some people rationalize all of it is screwed. Many bought straight into the CA response and have summed it up as "complaints over minor things, they could have left at any time and just wanted to use CA's popularity" while ignoring the fact that most of those people help BUILT the audience that resulted in the site being popular.
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fuck yeah:
[hide]Dan Olson, Hbomberguy (dunno his real name :/), Kyle Kallgren, Todd in the Shadows / ******* ******, Natalie Wynne / Contrapoints, Jenny Nicholson, Mikey Neumann, Rantasmo (dunno his real name too :/), Elisa Hansen, Nella… Lindsay's editor?
oh and WOOOOOH CONGRATS LINDSAY[/hide]
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Didn't remember Todd being that tall, well he only was on camera with other people in the specials, and I'm not watching those again.
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woah antifa wedding
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Todd is 6 feet tall, according to his twitter. I've been loving the comments on him saying he looks like a splice between Justin Trudeau and Lin-Manuel Miranda in this picture. Which is hilarious and true.
That said, I still have no idea who Lindsay's groom/bride is. She's kept it private for the longest time, which considering how things with with her and Todd (good relationship, but people kept picking their nose into it), I don't blame her.
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Harris should’ve come in his Sonic cosplay.
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Todd is 6 feet tall, according to his twitter. I've been loving the comments on him saying he looks like a splice between Justin Trudeau and Lin-Manuel Miranda in this picture. Which is hilarious and true.
That said, I still have no idea who Lindsay's groom/bride is. She's kept it private for the longest time, which considering how things with with her and Todd (good relationship, but people kept picking their nose into it), I don't blame her.
Considering the weeding top thingies on her twitter, almost definitelly a he.
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That said, I still have no idea who Lindsay's groom/bride is. She's kept it private for the longest time, which considering how things with with her and Todd (good relationship, but people kept picking their nose into it), I don't blame her.
Judging by his clothing and the fact that he's standing next to her, I want to almost definitely believe her groom is Todd.
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Judging by his clothing and the fact that he's standing next to her, I want to almost definitely believe her groom is Todd.
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It's not Todd, they're just associated heavily/he's the tallest so it makes sense to have him in that spot. They broke up years ago.
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Oh. Whoops. Never mind.
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They were my dream couple. I love their videos so, that the idea of them together is just… fantastic. But it's not meant to be, and I totally respect that.
This is also why Todd adopted his dog, Amy. He loved Kali so much, but Kali was Lindsay's dog. So when they separated, he got his own dog... to tweet about for every five minutes. But she's an awesome dog, so I understand.
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For a while I thought that they got back together, but his twitter timeline is not the one of a man about to get married.
I also remembered one life lesson: Don't ship real people.
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Well, there's other youtube reviewers that hooked up and have stayed together.
Paw and Maven got married and had a kid…. though Paw doesn't make videos anymore.
The Dom and Calluna are living together now, and I thought I saw signs going back to their first crossover review long before they publicly admitted it so that's cute.But yeah, in general don't ship real people. That's a bad road.
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Ship Contra/Nat's personas, like Tabby and… uh... shit.
Ship Hbomb and the Star Wars prequels.
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Absolutely. Never ship real people. If they're together, it's good to support or cheer them on, but if they break up, that's their choice.
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I thought Lindsey was (fuck do I say lesbian? queer, gay?)
Either way, congrats to her.
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Is It racist that I thought that Todd was black?
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Lindsay is bi.
And Todd could still be black… AS FAR AS YOU KNOW.
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Is It racist that I thought that Todd was black?
That particular photo is putting a lot of bright lot on him. Everyone is a bit washed out in that photo. He's usually a bit darker. Plus, aside from his gimmick lighting, the hood and bandana costume he wears for all photos and crossover videos tends to make him look a lot darker still.
Pretty sure he's actually asian.
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He's always seemed hawaiian to me.
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So… what do you guys think about JORDAN PETERSON ?
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There are many things Peterson gets wrong, and that's probably because he only speaks english (ain't aware of what the German and French intelligentsia thinks. Lots of things are not translated in English). Which pushes him to say some un-true things about "the west" while he's actually talking about north-america. Or at best he sometimes manages to make a few points about anglo-american countries and Scandinavia (+Netherlands). Whatever, at least he's trying, and to my knowledge he's the only north-american intelectual who opposes crazy things that a huge chunk of north-american liberals/lefties think.
The reason of why he got famous is one of the things I disagree with him. Using such pronouns to refer to transgender people isn't really problematic. There are languages (that I speak) that don't even have genders in it, and in the end it's just pronouns.
Anyway, concerning the above video. It basically semantics the shit out of his expression "neo marxist postmodernism" which barely scratches the top of all the things Peterson says.
Also, there is nothing confusing about his nuanced opinions. That lady is basically calling him a sophist, I think she even said that he's making up strawmans… -
Hugo and Jake are doing a great job of deconstructing Jordan Peterson's rhetoric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_–0CwtUo
My thoughts on Jordan Person:
A.) He's sexist. It's not obvious, but when you put the pieces together it's kind of hard to ignore.
B.) He seems to think that Postmodernism and Intersectional Feminism are basically the same thing.
C.) His main goal appears to be to "save" young male atheists from the left by converting them to Christianity. -
He's always seemed hawaiian to me.
I remember seeing a picture a long long time ago.
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If anyone really wants to get more recent pics of Todd then, well…
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Well damn.
! He definitely looks Southeast Asian. Phillipino or something.
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I've seen a lot of leaks of Todd's face. He has really sleepy eyes. I think it's cute. <3
Also, I really need to watch more ContraPoints.
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As someone who's actually quite fond of Britpop (or Oasis and Blur at least) I wanted to bring up that Todd did a review of Oasis's disastrous third album Be Here Now.
Also, the new AVGN episode is up on Amazon.
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As someone who is not fond of Britpop and Oasis, there's still no question that Be Here Now crashed the band.
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Was there ever been an one hour NC episode that wasn't a collaboration special?
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Yeah, nope. Can't click on the video now after all the dirt came out. Didn't even watch the Chicken Little video a couple weeks back. NC is just… not watchable anymore.
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are doug, tamara, and malcolm the only three left or is larry still trying to outchicken them
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are doug, tamara, and malcolm the only three left or is larry still trying to outchicken them
Oddly enough Doug has two other goofballs with him that show up in the video. I know they're responsible for doing top ten stuff on the channel and some anime or comic or something trivia but I never bother to remember their names as they are just unremarkably dull and uninteresting. Aaand this video essentially confirmed they are wholly a bore to listen to.
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Tamara is cool.
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Ugh, their offshoot Top 5/Awesome Comics guys. Yeah, those people have zero chemistry or comic timing and were generally terrible. I watched them a couple times and I guess they were counting on leeching off NC's built in base but … no. they were/are just terrible. They even did a video where NC did all their roles as a gag and it was suuuuper passive-agressive about the fact that they didn't get any views.
Tamara is fine though. She's fun. Malcolm is... there. They're just hired actors, they have no responsibility for all the bullshit that was going on.
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How to make a 20min long video about the crispr cas9 technology without even mentioning once the French researcher, Emmanuelle Charpentier, who found out how to use it. And kinda pretending that it's an american finding. Is this cultural appropriation ? I ponder
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1. That video doesn't really belong here since it's not really a web review show.
2. No. That's not what cultural appropriation is.
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That video doesn't belong anywhere else though
or maybe there is another thread with a very similar title. I don't know
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That video doesn't belong anywhere else though
or maybe there is another thread with a very similar title. I don't know
Probably best to post it in the American Politics thread.
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Or, actually, we have a Late Night Talk Show thread here
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It has nothing to do with american politics though
Anyway, the other thread is fine. thanks
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I just discovered this channel last night, Fact Fiend, and ended up marathoning through like, 30 of his videos in one sitting. He sort of rambles on a topic and it varies, from Jem being a plantinum selling band that never had an album to Punch Out to Daleks flying in Doctor Who to Mr. Rogers being too nice to interview to unfortunate pokemon birth marks,,, but this one really got me.
It… doesn't stay on the title topic very long before going into something crazy.
And also the MR. Rogers one just cause.
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I happened upon that Mr Rogers vid last night as well. His Ultra Heaven bit at the end killed me!